RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2015 at 10:40 pm by watchamadoodle.)
I like to think about things that are beyond my education level. 
Anyway, is there a way to make dimensions, geometry, time, etc. an emergenty property of information, entropy, etc.?
Like rather than a global time there is merely causation. If something causes something else then we have a before and after time. If multiple threads of causality merge then we synchronize those independent threads of befores and afters. As independent threads become more interconnected it begins to approximate a universal time, but actually there is no time - just intertwining befores and afters?
You could take a similar approach with space/position maybe? Instead of space, position, etc. we have bits of entropy that are somewhat related to each other. The positions and geometry are an emergent approximation of the relationships. Maybe the dimensions are not even uniform throughout the universe - 2.11 dimensions here and 3.65 dimensions there?
Maybe some things like quantum entanglement would seem less weird if we realized that space and time are emergent properties of the universe?
I hope somebody can understand what I'm imagining in my unscientific way.
Anyway, is there a way to make dimensions, geometry, time, etc. an emergenty property of information, entropy, etc.?
Like rather than a global time there is merely causation. If something causes something else then we have a before and after time. If multiple threads of causality merge then we synchronize those independent threads of befores and afters. As independent threads become more interconnected it begins to approximate a universal time, but actually there is no time - just intertwining befores and afters?
You could take a similar approach with space/position maybe? Instead of space, position, etc. we have bits of entropy that are somewhat related to each other. The positions and geometry are an emergent approximation of the relationships. Maybe the dimensions are not even uniform throughout the universe - 2.11 dimensions here and 3.65 dimensions there?
Maybe some things like quantum entanglement would seem less weird if we realized that space and time are emergent properties of the universe?
I hope somebody can understand what I'm imagining in my unscientific way.
